Mark
Cembrowski
Assistant Professor, Dept of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Research Theme:
Cellular & Molecular Engineering, Imaging and Computational Biology,Research Interests:
Anxiety Genetics; Modeling; Neural circuits; Neuroscience; Neuroscience of memory; PTSD; RNAseq
Biography:
Mark is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia, an Investigator with the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, and an Associate Member of the School of Biomedical Engineering. His laboratory, opened in 2019, combines a variety of experimental and computational techniques to study the role of cell types in memory and cognition. Prior to his position at UBC, Mark worked as a postdoctoral scientist in the laboratory of Nelson Spruston at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus. Mark received his MS (2008) and PhD (2011) in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University.
In his spare time, Mark practises and teaches yoga, handstands, and calisthenics.
RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
Mark Cembrowski is an early-career researcher with a hybrid skill-set in Applied Mathematics and multiscale experimental neuroscience. His lab combines these approaches to identify brain cell types, publishing in prestigious journals like Cell, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, Cell Reports, and eLife. He was named a 2018 Allen Institute “Next Generation Leader” and won the worldwide 2020 Cajal Club “Krieg Cortical Explorer” early-career researcher award.